Guillaume had been in Rwanda under the French-led military operation ‘Operation Turquoise’ under the mandate of the United Nations.
He has, for long, been saying that France supported the genocidal government, but it is the first time to reveal particular massacre that was committed by French soldiers.
On April 7, 2014, twenty years after the genocide against the Tutsi, Guillaume told Jeunafrique’s journalist Mehdi Ba that French soldiers who had been in Opération Turquoise supported the government that committed the genocide in terms of providing weapons which were also used during freeing period to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and reorganization to attack the country.
Guillaume was explaining the content in previous book dubbed ‘Vents sombres sur le lac Kivu’ loosely translated as ‘Dark Winds on Kivu Lake’ which has testimonies of what he witnessed while in Rwanda and his 2500 colleagues since June 1994.
The new book set for launch was dubbed ‘Rwanda, la fin du silence’, ‘The end of the Silence’
The book will be launched next month in the France-based publishing house, ‘Les Belles Lettres’.
Guillaume who was Captain in 1994, says that though ‘Opération Turqouise’ was masqueraded as was targeting to save lives of victims of the genocide and stop it from happening, he says the target was to support the genocidal government and fight the Rwanda Patriotic Army, which was fighting to stop the genocide.
He said that all actions by French Army were masterminded by political interests which are yet to be revealed due to inaccessibility of archives containing all information.
The preface of the book says that there is unrecorded information about the massacre done by French army whether in self-protection acts and organized ones.
In 2014, Guillaume urged France to reveal the truth, if they want to avoid the recurrence of similar mistakes.
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